Selected Poems (First Edition)

Yale University Press, New Haven, 2023. First edition thus. First printing, with full number line to 1. Full green paper-covered boards; spine lettered in gilt. As new in an as new dust jacket. A pristine, tight, clean, unread copy. No publisher's price, as issued. 8vo. 456 pp., with an introduction by David Bromwich, appendix of typographical entities, appendix listing the volumes in which the Chosen Poems first appeared, notes on uncommon and historically significant place names, index of titles, and index of first lines. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Edited by David Bromwich, this substantial selection includes the complete text of Hardy's own Chosen Poems together with more than 150 additional poems spanning his career from Wessex Poems through Winter Words.